Photo Copyright: Douglas M. Macilroy
We’re here for another week, gathered today in a virtual observatory high in some virtual snow-covered mountains. We’re here as the Friday Fictioneers to discuss our original stories for this week. Our hostess for this gathering is the gracious and talented author and artist, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The challenge for this group is to write a story with no more than 100 words. It’s supposed to have a beginning, middle, end, and follow the picture prompt for the week. This week’s prompt was supplied by Douglas M. Macilroy. Thanks, again, Doug.
To read the other stories from group members, just click on the little blue frog in the blue box after clicking on the link.
The link for the other stories is as follows:
https://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/24-april-2015/
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Word Count: 100 Words
I’VE BEEN GONE by P.S. Joshi
Mom took me to a really scary movie. Aliens landed near an observatory.
“Oh, Marie,” she said. “I shouldn’t have taken you to that one. I had no idea it would bother you.”
But she didn’t really understand why I was frightened. Aliens had already contacted me. I didn’t tell her as they’d warned me not to.
We lived in the mountains, and they wanted to land somewhere no one would find them.
“We’ll take you for a ride,” they said.
It sounded exciting.
“I’ll have to be back for dinner,” I answered.
I’m back–forty years later.
Never trust an alien on times.. I hope it was exciting though. Love the tone 🙂
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Aliens know: time is relative.
Clever piece.
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Hope the trip was worth the missed dinner. Nice one Suzanne.
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How was it? Write more.
Tracey
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That was a creepy one. Gave me chills!
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after 40 years? i guess she was indeed taken for a ride. 🙂
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Well, at least they brought her back…
Nice story!
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Ah, the tricks of time-space continuum. Those pesky aliens never warn us. Great story!
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Dear Suzanne,
I guess the aliens were on a different time schedule. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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We’ve got this thing called Facebook now, that’s where the aliens send you friend requests now. Nice one Suzanne,
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This is great. I want to know more, too. Alien abduction? Time travel? 🙂
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Well done Suzanne! I love your story! 🙂 Was not expecting that it would be 45 years later!
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And apparently they live within twenty light-years of us.
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Those aliens need to work on their time-keeping! Good story. 🙂
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40 years is probably like a week in alien years.
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A bit of a surprise for the family. Counselling doubtlessly needed. Nice concept.
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Messed up time travel – huge potential here!
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40 years? I hope she enjoyed her time over there.
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Very nice Suzanne! It might have been 40 years in Earth time but I bet she didn’t age at all!
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I guess the lesson here is to be very specific about which day you need to be back for dinner. Of course, there could have been a time-warp or something. I like Priceless Joy’s comment that she didn’t age. 🙂
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I think the aliens overlooked a few years here and there on this occasion, Suzanne! I hope she writes about everything she saw in her memoirs. 🙂
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I love a good alien abduction story. Nice dialogue – Mum doesn’t suspect a thing.
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I guess mom is not too keen on noticing details…. Randy
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This prompt needed a good abduction story! Well done. I wish I would have thought of it. At least, she’s back for dinner.
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And she’ll be grounded for the next 45 years. I hope she enjoyed herself…
Such a good one, Suzanne 🙂
Ellespeth
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Nice job with SciFi this week, Suzanne! This photo really brought out some clever stories. Nice job!
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Thanks, Dawn. I know what you mean. It kind of begs us to write in the Sci-Fi genre. I would have never guessed that was in Hawaii. Doug has traveled so much I thought he took it on one of his trips. Shows how much I know about Hawaii. 😀 — Suzanne
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Oh, now I want the whole story!
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Thanks, Ibeth. I seem to be sometimes ending with cliffhangers instead of absolute endings. I’m working on one now where several people wanted to know more. I’m so pleased you liked the story. 🙂 — Suzanne
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